Chapter 279

Her chaotic thoughts were interrupted by the ringing of her phone. Melanie checked her phone and saw it was Yvonne calling. She wanted to answer the call outside, but the lights in the private room had been turned off again.

Due to her poor eyesight, she did not dare to move around carelessly and had no choice but to answer Yvonne’s call there.

“Come clean! Where are you now?” Yvonne’s excited voice suddenly came through.

Melanie hesitated and replied, “I’m outside.”

Yvonne responded, “Oh, are you with Xander? Give him the phone. We’ve been calling him, but he hasn’t picked up any of our calls! We need him for something.”

“I’m not with him,” Melanie said.

Yvonne sounded puzzled. “Then why isn’t he answering the phone? We called him several times. Hey, do you know where he went?”

the type to intentionally ignore phone calls. She thought for a moment before suggesting, “Maybe he’s busy right

recalled the seriousness of Xander’s tone earlier when he mentioned that Howard would not help. She rarely heard Xander speak with such gravity. However,

her lips and whispered to Yvonne, “I’ll give him

was about to call Xander when she heard Eugene’s emotionless voice

list when Eugene’s indifferent voice continued, “How

Xander to Eugene many times, but

chin arrogantly, and said, “Do I have to teach you what to do? You should be aware of

stunned but quickly understood that Eugene was warning her about her grandfather’s situation. She looked at the glass and stayed silent for

ignorant of these rules when she first accompanied Eugene to social events and

the bottle back down in front of Eugene. However, she accidentally brushed against the nearby wine bottle, causing

the glass to Eugene, intending to speak, she

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into the trash can. His tone was casual and tinged with sarcasm as he said, ” Melanie, can’t you pour a decent

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